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THE RED AND BLACK
An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia community
Athens, Ga. Volume 95, No. 1 20 Thursday, June 16, 1988 News 543-1809 Advertising 543-1791
Taking the bridge to graduation
U. employee collapses
near main library, dies
Hail planned to enroll in grad school
By l^oulse Mulherin
Krd and Black .Stall Writer
Funeral services were held
Monday for a University employee
and student who died June 9 after
collapsing while crossing Jackson
Street outside the main library.
Ken Allgood. 22. who was plan
ning to enroll in graduate school
this fall, was pronounced dead at
9:20 a m. June 9 at St. Mary’s Hos
pital.
The actual cause of death is under
investigation and could take as long
as two weeks to determine,
according to University Police Sgt
Lisa Boone.
Allgood was an employee of the
University police department and
worked as a public safety officer in
the main library Previously, he had
worked in the library as a student
assistant and later as a full-time
employee. He began work at the
front desk of the library and was
well known among other staff mem
bers.
Allgood was a native of Fort
Valley. Georgia, and held a bache
lor's degree in political science. He
was scheduled to begin work in the
Master’s of Public Administration
program in the Fall.
An active member of Alpha Phi
Alpha fraternity, Allgood was re
spected and well liked, his co-
workers say.
In a memo sent to all library staff
members, acting director of li-
With the sun rising in the background, a graduating senior takes a final
walk across Sanford Bridge Saturday as he prepares to bring his days as a
student fc> an end. Skies were cool and bright at » a.in. when the 6,000 se
niors began their parade into Sanford Stadium before 30,000 spectators. For
many of the seniors, dressed in flowing black gowns, ill-fitting caps and tas
sels of various colors, the next two hours would be a time of reflection,
memories, and anticipation. By noon, all were official University alumni.
“This is a terrible
thing to happen... he
will be sorely
missed by all who
knew him. ”
— Bonnie Clemens,
acting director
of libraries
braries Bonnie Clemens said, "This
is a terrible thing to happen to a
young man of Ken’s ability, grace,
and temperment, and he will be so
rely missed by all who knew him."
Clemens said Allgood s death has
had a "devastating effect on the
staff.”
Claire Columbo, head of library
circulation, worked closely with Al
lgood and described him as "an ex
ceptional young man who was liked
and respected by everyone who
knew him."
Services for Allgood were held at
Saint Luke's Episcopal Church in
Fort Valley Monday, with many of
his Alpha Phi Alpha brothers in at
tendance. The fraternity held a me
morial service for Allgood June 12.
Hunter-Gault: All have failed
in responsibility to University
By Jim Farmer
Krd and Slack S*all \\tiler
Alumnae Charlayne Hunter-Gault gave the
keynote address to the University's 1988 grad
uating class June 11, but the speech wasn't of the
typical “have a good future" nature.
Gault spoke of her days as one of the first two
blacks enrolled in the University in 1961 She met
resistance from white students and was barred
from places such as movie theaters and bowling
alleys.
Now “the curious, inquisitive girl who onced
dreamed of being Brenda Starr" is a correspon
dent for the MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour on PBS
Hunter-Gault said the University isn't doing its
job in teaching students what the real world is
like.
"We have all failed in our responsibility to this
institution and to the state for lo these many
years," she said
And even though the '80s are a far cry from
the turbulent '60s. Hunter-Gault said blacks still
have yet to earn equal staus
"No one here today would pretend that the Old
South is dead and buried, that the events of the
past 25 years — even my presence here today —
has transformed dur peculiar world into one be
yond recognition.”
While she's pleased with the recent hiring of
black faculty, she feels more can be done
"I am convinced the presence of more black
faculty members here will not only attract more
black students to this campus, but their presence
along with those other black students will move
this place to a new phase in its pioneering his
tory," she said.
Hunter-Gault closed her speech with a story of
a man she met at an Atlanta reception recently.
"He introduced himself to me with the
sweetest greeting of them all. He said, 'Hello
Charlayne. I'm a fellow dawg.' "
Student reaction to Hunter-Gault's speech was
mixed
Scott Scaggs, a senior advertising major who
will graduate this summer but went through the
ceremony, said he felt the speech was inappro-
piate
“I just don't think it was the time or the
place,” he said. "The civil rights statements
were all true, but I just thought it was bad
timing."
Lisa Vogel, a graduating magazines major,
said the speech wasn't in the best of taste.
"I respect her a lot," Vogel said, "but 1 didn't
think much of her speech I thought it was an ego
trip, about what she had done and where she had
been And she shouldn't have chastised us — it’s
the administration that should be chastised.”
But Dave Prasse, a graduating political sci
ence major, liked the speech
"I enjoyed it,” he said. "I wasn’t looking for
ward to hearing it. Basically, every graduation
\*l i.rnlt, /The Reri unil BUS
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
speech is the same — what you’ve done and ac
complished, and the bright futures that lay
ahead But this one was different She's had a
very interesting experience and I thought what
she had to say was admirable "
Soviets trill rewrite textbooks
after history exams cancelled
MOSCOW (AP) - President Ken
nedy was murdered in a plot by
Texas oilmen The Red Army won
World War II virtually alone These
and other lies have fatally flawed
Soviet textbooks, according to the
official media and educators
“Huge, unmeasurable is the guilt
of those who deluded generation
after generation, poisoning their
minds and souls with lies,” the gov
ernment daily Izvestia thundered
recently in an unusually strong at
tack on distortions and omissions in
the schoolbooks and on the authors
who wrote them.
History texts used by 45 million
Soviet school pupils are so out of
tune with Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s
campaign for “glasnost” or open
ness that 160 teams of authors have
competed to write new textbooks
and this month’s history exams
have been canceled for students in
their 10th and final year of school.
The written tests would have re
quired 16- and 17-year-olds to parrot
material at odds with recent disclo
sures about the country's past, in
cluding the misdeeds of dictator
Josef Stalin.
“What Stalin did in the 1930s. all
the illegal acts, are not mentioned
in the textbooks," said Igor A Par
abrin, editor of international rela
tions for the educational newspaper
Uchitelskaya Gazeta. “There is a
lack of information, a lack of truth,
and sometimes just plain lies '
For example, Parabrin said text
books still depict Stalin’s foes such
as Nikolai A Bukharin as criminals
or traitors, or do not mention them
at all Bukharin, a top-ranking Bol
shevik who was shot in 1938 after
being convicted on trumped-up
charges of spying, was judicially re
habilitated this year.
“There is a lack
of information,
a lack of truth,
and sometimes
just plain lies.’’
The textbooks, even those printed
as recently as 1986, spotlight Soviet
victory in World War II and the 1957
launch of the first Sputnik, but
avoid tragedies such as the 1934-38
Great Purge, in which Western his
torians estimate at least 8 million
people were killed or sent to labor
camp under Stalin
Library employees are sensitive to call for increased hours
By Frank Lynch
Itfd and alack Mall Wrllmr
Each weekday morning, graduate stu
dent Leslie Mann drags hersel. out of bed
early to attend classes At 1 p.m., she ar
rives for her nine-hour job as a night circu
lation supervisor at the science library
She gets off work at 10 p.m., leaving just
enough time to do research or homework
before the libraries close at midnight
Mann, as a student and full-time library
employee, knows both sides of the recent
debate over extending library hours, and
she sees the need.
"But I think what people are looking for
is a place to study, not to check out
books,” she said.
Students launched a campaign spring
quarter to see library hours extended on a
permanent basis.
As a result, library officials conducted a
survey of patrons during the final week of
classes to determine if there is a need for
extended hours
Bonnie Clemens, acting director of li-
t braries, said the survey was handed out to
I patrons visiting the main and science li
braries She said she distributed 200 of the
surveys herself.
"I wanted to know first-hand, and I had
a number of students say our hours are
fine," she said. “I don't think there’s a
large number of people pushing for an ex
tension. But we want to be sure if there is
a need, we'll accommodate it."
Clemens said the survey was developed
by the library administration because no
one was sure what hours students want
most.
"We’re not in the position to go to 24
hours," she said "The budget won't allow
it. So we've got to ascertain what hours
are most beneficial to the patrons."
Clemens said 800 surveys were distrib
uted in the main library the week before fi
nals, and another 400 in the science
library.
“It’s too early to talk about specifics in
what we find," she said. "Generally, un
dergraduate students are interested in
having the library open into the a m. hours
during the week, and graduates want ex
tended hours on the weekends "
Clemens said if results of the survey call
for it. library officials will develop a pro
posal that may include a trial period of ex
tended hours this fall.
“I haven’t seen a move
for 24-hour registration
or 24-hour classes. This
is real life. You’ve got to
budget your time.”
—Cynthia Flack,
library employee
Traditionally, the libraries stay open
late during final exam periods This year,
the extended hours were begun on June 1,
but circulation employees w ere sent home
at the regular closing time of midnight
Priya Shilotri, circulation desk super
visor at the main library, said the library
has always been open late the last three or
four days at the end of each quarter, but
students haven’t necessarily used the
service of the employees.
"We used to staff the desk, but only two
or three people would use us, so it really
didn’t warrant having people here," Ms
Shilotri said "We really didn't think there
was a need to staff the desk after mid
night."
Cynthia Flack, an assistant in the refer
ence department of the science library,
agreed that most students want the longer
hours just to have a place to study
"But the tables and chairs are disap
pearing because we're having to add
books, and the libraries aren't getting any
bigger." Flack said.
She suggested students lobby for alterna
tive study areas instead of the libraries
“They need to start looking at alterna
tives." she said. "It's not that we don't
want people studying here, the room is just
running out. "
She said if hours were extended, the
problems of additional employees and se
curity would have to be addressed.
“Who watches the female who comes out
of the building at 2 a m., or the student
studying upstairs alone?" Flack said
Mann said it would be difficult finding
employees to supervise the late hours.
"Everybody who would stay up that late
wants to study," she said, "and we don't
pay them enough to walk back to their
cars at 5 a m.”
Mann understands that students can't
study in dorms or fraternity and sorority
houses, but she doesn't think the libraries
are necessarily the place to study either
"What we really need is more places to
study," she said
Mann suggested Student Affairs should
look into finding new late-night study
areas, perhaps in the Tate Student Center
“A lot of people don't feel it's the li
brary’s responsibility," she said.
Clemens said that if the libraries were to
stay open later, it would be to satisfy the
demand for study space
"There are other places on campus to
study," she said. "But I'm not sure if there
is any one solution . "
Flack, meanwhile, said students who be
lieve library hours here are out of line with
those at other schools don't have the facts
straight
"There are few libraries in the country
open 24 hours," she said. "You can’t com
pare a library to Kinkos.”
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"I haven't seen a move for 24-hour
tration or 24-hour classes," she said
is real life. You've got to budget
time."